Writer compiles epic 71-tweet thread of people talking about Trump as if he were a toddler

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Trump models a hard hat in support of coal miners during a 2016
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For months, a Washington Post contributor has been compiling the
definitive guide to his favorite narrative of the Donald Trump
administration: that the president's staff treats him like a
toddler.

At least that's the perspective of Daniel Drezner, a contributor
to the paper's PostEverything section, who in April tweeted about
the administration's unusual way of handling Trump, and has
followed up with dozens more examples.

"It started, as all 2017 stories about American politics start,
with a garden-variety snarky tweet," Drezner
wrote about his original tweet:

Drezner said he wanted to push back on the narrative that Trump
was "growing into the presidency," a take shared by mainstream
news commentators such as CNN's Fareed Zakaria and Van Jones at
various points of Trump's tenure.

However, as more and more examples popped up in the media of what
Drezner viewed as the childlike way in which people talk about
Trump's behavior, he decided to tack them on to his original
tweet, which eventually snowballed into the 71-tweet behemoth of
a thread it is today.

Some examples are brutal: In one New York Times article from May,
White House aides said then-Chief of Staff Reince Priebus "has
reduced the pace of public events and, like a Montessori teacher,
modulates structured work time with the slack periods Mr. Trump
craves."

Another example from a Reuters article in May describes the
president as having a short attention span and needing his memos
to fit on one page and preferring them with "maps, charts,
graphs, and photos."

In order to make the cut, Drezner said the example has to come
from a major news outlet and must be sourced to a Trump ally, not
a Democrat or media pundit.